The IRC bot’s operation is fairly straightforward. It enters a channel and can be commanded to search. The first two searches will return links to Google searches for the strings given. Every third search however, will return a link to Hackaday’s search page. In the example below, “SedAwk” is an unsuspecting user, and “SearchRobot” is our bot.

The WildFire has a white LED connected to the D5 output. The LED is controlled with LED ON, and LED OFF.

SedAwk: SearchRobot: LED ON
SearchRobot: Turning On an LED, because I'm an Arduino after all
SedAwk: SearchRobot: LED OFF
SearchRobot: Turning OFF an LED. Someday I'll grow up to be a 6502

I freely admit this code was hacked together from several sources, and it may well violate all standards of good programming, as well as space, time, and the laws of physics. Thankfully as a Hackaday contributor I’m not eligible for the contest. If you would like to take a look at the code check out the Github repo.